Introduction: What is “Hacked the Saga”?

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• Background on Carla’s Christian content website raisedtowalk.org (established 2013)
• Hacking began December 2023, concrete evidence obtained April 2024
• 198-page FBI report submitted July 28, 2024 with no response
• Discovery of intellectual property theft from An Unexpected Journal and YouVersion Bible app
• August 4, 2024: First three-hour livestream marking beginning of public documentation
• Update #62 in ongoing saga documenting complete stonewalling by authorities
• Discovery of Google Family Group providing ongoing access to hackers
• Phil Tallon (Dean of Christian Thought at Houston Baptist University) identified as conspirator

Law Enforcement Failures and Gaslighting

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• Woodburn Police: “Hacking isn’t a crime”
• Portland FBI Office: “Doesn’t rise to level of investigation”
• Salem FBI Office: “Don’t investigate identity theft” and “Salem hospital can falsify your records because they’re their records”
• Salem Police (Tuesday report): Only stolen phone is a crime, not identity theft or social media impersonation
• Pattern of gaslighting, stonewalling, and dismissiveness from all authorities
• Attacks escalate after every police report rather than being investigated

The Evolution of Social Media and Advertising

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• Original purpose of Facebook: connecting college friends (Mark Zuckerberg’s vision)
• Pre-2016 Facebook advertising: targeted, economical, effective with pixel tracking
• Businesses could advertise to specific page followers or create lookalike audiences
• Pixel tracking allowed cross-internet monitoring of user behavior
• Facebook ads were “dummy advertising” – pushing content rather than attracting customers

Cambridge Analytica Scandal and Its Aftermath

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• 2016: Ted Cruz campaign worked with Cambridge Analytica
• 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for invasive targeting
• Linked to Steve Bannon and Trump campaign
• Fundamental American right to privacy violated
• Congressional inquiries and massive privacy law changes followed
• Post-scandal: Pixel tracking became less effective, couldn’t collect same data
• Americans corporately decided “we don’t like to be creeped on”

The Corporate Response: Data Sharing “Clean Rooms”

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• Digital marketing companies didn’t adapt to learn traditional advertising skills
• Instead, major companies began sharing customer data with each other
• “Clean rooms” – partnerships where businesses share client information Users never explicitly consented to this data sharing
• Creates fundamental inequity – small businesses can’t access this shared data
• Likely illegal data sharing beyond just data breaches

How Sock Puppet Networks Replace Pixels

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• AI has made creating massive sock puppet account networks more accessible
• Algorithm controlled by engagement: likes, comments, shares, connections
• Social media requires login to see profiles – enables personalized content manipulation
• VPN testing proves different content shown to different users on same profile
• Sock puppets are now “the pixel” – delivering targeted ads through fake accounts
• Agencies replace real friends with controlled accounts to deliver specific advertising
• Evidence of inside access for agencies running mass sock puppet operations

Evidence: The August 4, 2024 Attack

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• After posting about fake YouTube analytics in Sean Cannell’s Facebook group, account locked for 3 days
• Day after phone reformat: corrupted Play Store downloaded, every account hacked
• Personal Instagram account: unable to access
• Business Instagram dashboard: repeatedly denied despite correct credentials
• Driver’s license submitted, rejected as “can’t verify your information”
• Bright Sheep Ministries YouTube channel completely stolen and removed from Google account
• Afghan ministry teaching videos (some unlisted, some private after translator was outed) permanently deleted
• All recovery attempts denied

The Facebook Account Transfer Feature

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• Original account (CM Alvarez, created 2008) data moved to sock puppet account
• New short name: CarlaAlvarez (had been impersonating Carla since 2013)
• Activity log showed impersonation dating back to 2013
• Initially thought hackers had special program – discovered it’s a built-in Meta feature
• Facebook has built-in account transfer capability that enables identity theft
• After posting about discovery on Twitter, activity log was altered -proving ongoing access

Meta’s Complicity: The Smoking Gun Evidence

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• Discovered advertising disclosure section showing who’s advertising to user
• Shows who has you on advertising list AND exclude list
• Exclude list purpose: Don’t show ads to existing customers (e.g., gym membership campaign)
• The fake account impersonating Carla was on multiple exclude lists:
• ACLJ (Jay Sekulow’s organization)
• Salem Web Network
• Meta itself
• Proves Meta knows exactly which accounts are fake
• Meta cannot claim ignorance
• Meta is in partnership and networking with fake accounts
• Evidence Meta isn’t trying to eliminate fake accounts but enabling them

The Real Impact: Nancy Robertson Impersonation

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• Fake account created of Nancy Robertson (Kingwood Garden Center, well-known community figure)
• Running fraudulent fundraiser ads
• Stealing influence and relationships of respected community member Clear fraud: impersonation + attempting to profit
• Example of how criminals target well-connected people to exploit their networks

Inside Access and Ongoing Attacks

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• After posting on Twitter about 2013 impersonation discovery
• Activity log altered when checked again
• Proves continued inside access to the account
• Meta’s features enable real-time manipulation of evidence

Meta’s Human Trafficking Policy Scandal

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• Whistleblower revealed Meta has 17-strike policy for human sex trafficking accounts
• Accounts engaged in human trafficking get 17 chances before action taken
• Abundant evidence Meta doesn’t care about criminal activity on platform
• Should not receive immunity since they knowingly allow crimes

The Problem with Fake Engagement for Businesses

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• Agencies sell businesses on improved engagement metrics
• Metrics measured: likes, comments, shares, list building, mentions
• Services scan internet for brand mentions even without direct links
• All of this can be faked
• Evidence: YouTube transcripts altered to remove
  negative mentions (Bart Ehrman example)
• Every instance of “Bart Ehrman” corrupted to “Bartman” to avoid negative mention tracking
• Model automatically changes transcripts to hide negative context
• Sock puppets fake engagement; AI models fake mentions
• Services monitoring these metrics are “completely worthless”

YouTube Transcript Sabotage

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• December 2024: Conspirators began altering all YouTube transcripts
• Changed Carla’s name to break brand
• Not just typos – changed meaning of statements to opposite of what was said
• 2020-present: Carla edited every transcript as part of publishing process
• Evidence includes dates when captions were changed
• YouTube Studio access altered – no subtitle options, only “languages”
• Can’t see when subtitles altered anymore
• Can’t export timestamps
• Affects all channels connected to Gmail account, even other people’s channels
• Evidence of inside access to YouTube/Google

What is Social Media Actually For?

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• Original purpose: Connect with people you know, meet new people, build community
• Sock puppet networks are “black holes” that destroy community
• Networks never interact outside their fake circles
• Only goal: attention, clicks, views, ad revenue
• Self-focused: engaging with others means lost revenue
• Competition with other fake networks to control algorithm
• Harms real people seeking genuine connections
• Real people can’t find each other due to overwhelming fakeness

The Business Question: What Good Does Fake Engagement Do?

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• Fake engagement only useful for ego boost or hiding unpopularity
• No value for actual businesses wanting customer connection
• Real businesses need authentic interaction, not metrics
• If you’re not Kardashian or Ted Cruz, fake numbers are meaningless

Case Study: Second Baptist North Instagram

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• Church announcement reel for new family pastor (Kale)
• 12,000 member church with hundreds of kids in children’s ministry
• 12 hours after posting: only sock puppet comments
• Carla’s supportive comment was only real account engaging
• Church relying on fake engagement despite massive real membership
• Sock puppets keep post within fake account circles
• Real members less likely to engage when seeing unknown fake commenters
• Doesn’t create community or connect with actual attendees
• After critical comment about fake engagement, comment deleted
• Carla’s Instagram immediately attacked again
• All post views showed as zero (even after viewing herself)
• Cumulative views still showed, proving targeted manipulation not site-wide issue

The Fake Angel King Account

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• After commenting on Second Baptist post, attack wave on Carla’s accounts
• Fake account impersonating Angel King (Second Baptist children’s director)
• Showed as first suggested follow after attacks
• Not Angel’s real account (Carla previously connected, now replaced)
• Likely used to mass-report Carla’s posts
• Demonstrates coordinated retaliation through impersonation

Instagram Account Manipulation

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• When regained access, following garbage accounts never followed before
• Could identify which were “clients” of manipulation services
• Deleted all followers and following
• Started over from 2015, looking for real people
• Found one seemingly real account, followed and interacted
• Days later: unfollowed from real account, now following lookalike sock puppet
• New account “looked like Charlotte Thomason in a wig”
• Sock puppet liked irrelevant content (Spanish, Italian posts)
• Poisons reach by making algorithm think wrong content is relevant
• Accounts designed to tank reach and engagement
• Called “tortious interference” – also illegal

The Business Risk of Hiring Sock Puppet Agencies

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• If you fire the agency, your accounts are burned
• They likely transfer real followers to accounts they control
• Replace with sock puppets on your account
• Former clients face targeted sabotage campaigns
• Retribution for firing them
• Even without active sabotage: account burned by previous fake engagement
• Algorithm poisoned by fake interaction history
• “Shooting yourself in the foot”
• Tying yourself to fakeness eliminates real community building

The Predatory Trust Problem

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• Carla taught children’s ministry for 8 years
• Ran events for kids, Girl Scouts, school volunteering
• Profile known by many children and families
• Impersonators trading on her trusted identity
• Children/teenagers who knew her wouldn’t recognize fake account
• Creates predatory trust relationship
• Fake Angel King account: Children’s director at large church
• What could be done with fake account of someone children trust?
• “So many different levels of wrong”
• Even if church authorized social media management, giving far more access than appropriate
• Retaliation after factual comment shows lack of trustworthiness

CS Lewis Counterfeit Books Update

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• Previous week covered fake CS Lewis book covers
• Posted on Reddit with video evidence
• HarperCollins site showing authentic ebook cover but counterfeit paperback cover
• Three possible explanations:
• HarperCollins site pulling from corrupted Library of Congress data
• HarperCollins site itself hacked
• DNS poisoning (happening to Carla’s own site)
• Posted Tuesday/Wednesday before Thanksgiving, tagging HarperCollins, Publishers Weekly, Amazon
• Amazon responded about reporting counterfeits
• Amazon appeared to start cleanup
• Day later: counterfeiters adapted strategy with new methods
• Hideously ugly counterfeit covers appearing in Kindle suggestions
• Criminal AI model learning and adapting to countermeasures
• Salem Library catalog: most audiobook listings showed counterfeit covers
• Some physical books also showing counterfeits
• Uncertain if counterfeiters receiving revenue from library systems
• Library staff unsure if pulling from Library of Congress

Ongoing Access Despite Police Reports

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• October 6, 2025: Reported Google Family Group with names and phone numbers
• Officer: “Don’t know if any crimes committed here”
• November 7, 2025: Jason Smith accessed Carla’s
  Google Drive (one month after report)
• November 16-17: Jason Smith accessed multiple times
• Accessed Affinity photo files for An Unexpected Journal covers
• AUJ never paid Carla for cover creation (Virginia de la Lastra did artwork)
• They have no right to source files, only individual pieces
• Hacking files off laptop is a crime
• Jason Smith uploaded folder with Afghan family information
• PDF contained passport photos and Tazkiras (Afghan SSN equivalent)
• Shared with Jim Swayze and Grant Broadhurst
• Female-headed Afghan Christian family in extreme danger
• Taliban environment: women can’t speak to each other, only one eye uncovered
• Upload faked to appear from Carla’s Gmail account
• Carla never uploaded Afghan info to Google Drive (used encrypted cloud storage)
• Possible purposes: frame Carla, sell fake documents, unknown
• Exposure of Afghans directly at feet of Salem Police Department
• Carla has no association with these people except AUJ volunteer work 2018-2023
• Zak Schmoll and Carla did majority of work until 2023
• Jasmin Biggs and Jason Smith took over and “tanked it”
• No business relationship, no affiliation beyond volunteer publishing  work

Today’s Attacks Continue

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• At Broadway Coffee: device hacking sessions, logged out of account
• Mac logged into legacy marketing account
• Had to boot them out before livestream
• Cloudways account: hackers whitelisted IP address for trusted access
• Comcast IP address from Vancouver, Washington
• Questions whether criminals smarter than local law enforcement
• Shouldn’t be hard to track down

Oregon Revised Statutes: What Actually IS a Crime

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• Identity Theft (ORS 165.800)
  • Police claim impersonation without getting money isn’t a crime
  • Statute: “Intent to deceive or defraud, obtain, possess, transfer, create, utter, or convert to own use the personal identification of another person”
  • Class C felony
  • Does NOT require financial gain
  • Taking personal identification IS theft
  • Impersonating actual person IS identity theft
• Creating fictional persona is different (not identity theft)
• Impersonating even dead people is identity theft
• Aggravated Identity Theft (ORS 165.803)
  • 10 or more separate instances within 180 days (six months)
  • Conspirators have done “way more than that” continuously
• Computer Crime
  • “To access means to instruct, communicate with, store data in, retrieve data from, or otherwise make use of any resources of a computer system or a computer network”
  • Hacking IS a crime in Oregon
  • Joshua Mitchell (Woodburn Police) wrong that “hacking isn’t a crime”
• Stalking (ORS 163.732)
  • Also a crime under Oregon law
• People need to carry ORS code to report crimes
• “Literally happens all the time and nobody seems to know what a crime is around here”

Key Takeaway: Social Media Is Not Reality

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• Level of corruption exists at platform level
• Even if originally connected to real person, strong likelihood account now fake
• Real account replaced with fake profile
• Not connecting to real person anymore
• Cannot take social media content as gospel truth
• May be fabricated to influence perception or manipulate
• If you have lawsuit against Meta: they are corporately complicit
• Meta knows what’s going on and who’s doing it
• Meta is partnering with criminals
• Meta has built-in features facilitating fraud

Resources and Closing

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• Full documentation at raisedtowalk.org/hacked-the-saga/
• Extensive evidence and details available
• Episode #62 in ongoing documentation series